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SUMMARY:More Than A Single Story: Place
DESCRIPTION:The Loft continues its collaboration with More Than A Single Story with a discussion centered around place. What does location—the block\, the protest site\, and so forth—have to do with art? And what can art do in those spaces? This panel brings together a diverse panel of artist activists who engage with art making in community space: Mark Tilsen\, Tou Saiko Lee\, Seitu Jones\, and Angela Two Stars. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Loft Literary Center. \nTickets: \n$10.00 Regular\n$5.00 Loft Member\n$0.00 Pay What You Can \nRegister here.\n— \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nTou SaiK Lee is a rhyme writer who flows over drum loops\, a poet loralette appointed by O.G.s of community organizing in St. Paul. Lee was the Multicultural Movement Builder for the Frogtown Neighborhood Association connecting underrepresented communities to resources and leadership opportunities. He collaborated with Karen and Karenni refugees to create a gang and substance abuse prevention program for Southeast Asian youth called AYO (Asian Youth Outreach). \nAngela Two Stars is a public artist and curator. She is the director of All My Relations Arts\, a project of the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis\, MN. Angela is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. Angela’s public art commissions include; Zaniya Yutokce at Bde Maka Ska\, and Okciyapi at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden\, as well as additional works within the Twin Cities. \nSeitu K Jones is a multidisciplinary artist\, advocate and maker based in St. Paul\, Minnesota. Working between the arts and public spheres\, Jones channels the spirit of radical social movements into experiences that foster critical conversations and nurture more just and vibrant communities from the soil up. He is recognized as a dynamic collaborator and a creative force for civic engagement. \nMark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He comes from activist families long steeped in the struggle for liberation for all people and the long term survival of the Lakota Nation. At Standing Rock he stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Those stories have been compiled into a book of poems titled It Ain’t Over Until We’re Smoking Cigars on the Drillpad. During the pandemic Tilsen has worked with Camp Mniluzahan providing shelter for unhoused relatives in on Lakota land near Rapid City SD. \n  \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/more-than-a-single-story-place/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: John Wright and Brittany Delaney
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, \nOn Thursday\, February 17\, 2022\, Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator\, Brittany Delaney will join Distinguished Professor Emeritus John S. Wright in a conversation about Dr. Wright’s storied career at the U of M beginning with his leadership of the Morrill Hall takeover in 1969 when he was an undergrad – the event that led to the founding of the African American Studies program. They will also discuss his role in the acquisition of The Givens Collection of African Literature which holds over 10\,000 books\, magazines\, and pamphlets by or about African Americans\, and the performative history of the traveling multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and toured the country with beginning in the 1990s. \n\n  \nRegister Here.\n  \nABOUT THE FEATURED WRITERS: \n\nJohn S. Wright is Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of African American & African Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. When he was a graduating senior and member of the Afro-American Action Committee at the U of M\, he wrote the Seven Demands that led to the 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover\, the founding of the University’s Department of Afro-American & African Studies and its Martin Luther King Program\, which he subsequently administered from 1971-73. He was twice appointed a Research Associate at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (1982 & 1991); and joined its Working Group on Black Intellectual History from 1991-93.  In 1991 he served as Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Center in Harlem. Wright spearheaded the acquisition of the Archie Givens\, Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life in 1985\, and served as its Faculty Scholar while leading Givens Collection teacher training seminars and community outreach projects for two decades. His artistic work includes the multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and began touring in the 1990s. \nBrittany Delaney is a Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator born and raised in Minnesota. She has been performing on the scene for 18 years after getting her start in Slam Poetry. Brittany has participated in Spoken Word groups such as The Minnesota Spoken Word Association\, Quest for the Voice\, Brave New Voices (HBO)\,Teens Rock the Mic and various Slam organizations. She’s facilitated poetry workshops in university-based establishments across the country and is currently contracting as a Curriculum Consultant for various school districts across the United States. She continues doing residencies\, diversity training\, and tours. Her focus is promoting literacy\, inclusion\, and safe space learning environments through culturally responsive (and responsible) curriculum and practices. \nEmbracing our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts and In Black Ink.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-john-wright-and-brittany-delaney/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled for the month of January. Please stay tuned for more information about February’s Embracing Our Roots conversation with two Black writers. \n  \nEmbracing Our Roots is a conversation with Black writers. In the Spirit of Sankofa\, this speaker series reaches back into the history of the Black literary arts in Minnesota in order to pass this knowledge on to the new generation of ascending as leaders in our Black literary arts. The series features Black Literary Elders and Culture Bearers who will discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, and will engage audience members in conversation around the impact that both the writers and the movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating. \nThe series will run from September 2021-February 22. Speakers will include Louis Alemayehu\, Pamela Fletcher Bush\, Carolyn Holbrook\, Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop\, Alexs Pate\, and John Wright. The program will culminate with a tour of the Givens Collection of African American Literature based at the University of Minnesota. \n  \nThis series is made possible with the partnership with Black Table Arts and In Black Ink. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-2/
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura\, editors\, will be at Next Chapter Booksellers on Monday\, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. for the launch of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. They will be joined for this hybrid event by contributors Kao Kalia Yang\, Said Shaiye\, Douglas Kearney\, and Melissa Olson. To register for in-person attendance ($5)\, visit the Next Chapter Booksellers website here. To attend virtually (free)\, register here. \nHere Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. Essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice. 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/book-launch-event-we-are-meant-to-rise/
LOCATION:Next Chapter Booksellers\, 38 Snelling Ave S.\, St. Paul\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Featured
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SUMMARY:Exploring Home\, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:How can writing help you reclaim life\, forge new languages and build a brighter future after experiencing exile or separation from one’s home? How can self-awareness expand our writing and self in increasingly stressful sociopolitical contexts? In this workshop\, we will answer these questions and examine the ordinary events of our lives – our location\, language\, movements\, dreams\, memories\, desires and more – and purposefully use writing as a tool to resist being a passive onlooker in our life and the world. Led by Beaudelaine Pierre. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the Hennepin County Library website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (U.S.). She is the author of the award-winning collection of essays and stories “You May Have the Suitcase Now” (New Rivers Press\, 2021)\, the co-editor of the trilingual anthology “How to Write an Earthquake / Comment écrire et quoi écrire / Mou pou 12 Janvye” (AHB\, 2011) and author of the debut novel “Testaman” (Bon Nouvèl\, 2002). Pierre is currently researching and exploring the ethical\, scientific and humanist representations of the situation of Temporary Protected Status holders in the Youwès.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-exile-and-what-we-carry-writing-memoirs/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop
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SUMMARY:Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems
DESCRIPTION:In the Cento form\, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. This exercise encourages participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems and helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop\, we will work with multiple poems to create our own Cento poems on the themes of home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Led by Valerie Deus. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nValerie Deus is a poet\, film programmer and radio show host of Haitian descent. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Midway\, the St. Paul Almanac\, and more. Her most recent essay is featured in “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories About Food and Family.” When she’s not writing\, she is the host of Project 35\, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-and-exile-writing-cento-poems/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop
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SUMMARY:EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: Alanna Morris-Van Tassel in conversation with Arleta Little & Ellena Schoop
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. On Wednesday\, Oct. 20\, Alanna Morris-Van Tassel will join Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop in a conversation about the Givens Foundation for African American Literature and the collaborative retreat they founded which brought in nationally and internationally renowned poets and writers such as Amiri Baraka and Sonja Sanchez to mentor emerging Minnesota Black writers.\n\nEmbracing Our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts\, and In Black Ink. Photo Credit: Canaan Mattson\, courtesy of the McKnight Choreography Fellowship\n\nAlanna Morris-Van Tassel is a dancer-choreographer\, educator\, and artist organizer whose work excavates cultural retention and fragmentation within their Caribbean diasporic identity. They were a featured performer with TU Dance from 2007-2017\, and served as the company’s Artistic Associate in 2020. In 2015 they were awarded a McKnight Dance Fellowship\, They were named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch!”in 2018 and were selected as City Pages’ Artist of the Year in and Best Choreographer in 2019. Morris-Van Tassel is the Artistic Director of AMVTP\, founded in 2017 to produce dance\, education and community-building initiatives. Learn more about Alanna at www.alannamvt.com.\n\nArleta Little is a writer and culture worker living in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood. Her literary work has appeared in Blues Vision: African American Writing From Minnesota and in The Saint Paul Almanac. She is a co-author along with Josie Johnson and Carolyn Holbrook of Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir about the life of Josie R. Johnson. Formerly the Executive Director of the Givens Foundation of African American Literature\, she currently works as an Arts Program Officer and the Director of Artist Fellowships at the McKnight Foundation.\n\nEllena (Tina) Schoop\, east coast native\, IT Professional by day\, is a founding member of Uhuru Dancers\, 1989. She is a West African dancer\, choreographer\, poet\, and playwright who writes dramatic works of social\, economic and historical subjects. She was the visionary and co-founder of the Givens Foundation Black Writers Collaborative Retreat Program. Raised by parents who were members of the Black Panther Party\, she believes in not only sharing these stories through dance and writing\, but through fighting for equity. She has performed\, written and shared stories throughout the Twiin Cities for the past 2 decades.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-arleta-little-and-ellena-schoop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:In this More Than a Single Story conversation\, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre\, Gabrielle Civil\, Valerie Deus\, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now\,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Moderated by Professor Zenzele Isoke. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThis program hosted by More Than a Single Story via Zoom. Register at the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. If you’re new to Zoom\, check Getting Started with Zoom. \n  \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar\, and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (US). \nMarie Lily Cerat is Associate Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College and teaches with the Africana Studies Department. \nGabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist\, poet and writer\, originally from Detroit\, MI. \nJaira Placide is a Ph.D. student in City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. \nZenzele Isoke is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/the-suitcases-we-carry-an-afternoon-with-haitian-women-writers/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T180000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED | INTRODUCTION TO FIELD RECORDING AND INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID-19\, the library has cancelled all events through April 30th.  We are hoping to reschedule this event for fall if things calm down. \nInstructors: Melissa Olson and Ryan Dawes \nDescription: Melissa and Ryan will walk through the interview process with students interviewing each other. We will explore how to use recording gear\, including recorder settings\, microphone setup and setting\, as well as creative interview techniques such as scheduling\, preparation\, planning questions\, and follow-up questioning. We’ll also briefly explore ethical issues that come up during interviews.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/introduction-to-field-recording-and-interviewing-techniques/
CATEGORIES:Community
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